Plymouth doesn't have an airport, it has a skid pan/landing strip on top of a hill!
From what I've been reading a particular Plymouth councillor (who I worked with some 28 years ago) was announcing and calling, earlier this year, for the runway to be extended whilst suggesting, if not saying it in so many words, that the airport needed such a runway extension to serve the city appropriately ... at present very few commercial aircraft types can operate in/out of the airport.
Well the only feasible runway extension would need to be a stilted one, I don't know facts and figures but I'd imagine a stilted runway extension to be mega expensive.
Thus with such advice/suggestion the council had a choice:
1. Spend a bucket load of money stilting a runway extension in to what is currently an industrial estate, or:
2. Close the airport.
Last edited by Phileas Fogg; 9th Jun 2011 at 17:39.